Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century

by Earl Mindell

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide to vitamins and other nutrient supplements contains sections designed for individual needs and the elderly and sets forth regimens for a variety of illnesses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446607029
• ISBN13: 9780446607025
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

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Arrived on time Good book

A useful route to understanding something important.

With age and middle-age spread eventually coming to everyone, an understanding of the body's requirements for vitamins and minerals becomes as important as eating that "five a day." In this book by world famous nutritionist Earl Mindell, we learn how to determine which vitamins and minerals are good for us as individuals, how to understand and identify those which we need, the maximum and minimum daily doses and how the right choices can improve our lives. Whilst there is no perfect pill for all requirements, more and more people are turning to vitamins and minerals to improve and extend their personal lives and almost every aspect of that life. According to this book, there is a right way and a wrong way of using such supplements and, for those who are becoming more aware of their value, Mindell provides the necessary understanding of precisely what is going on. NM

Vitamin Bible by Earl Mindell

The author is both a pharmacist and nutritionist. The workexplains many aspects of vitamins including daily allowances,benefits for the heart and lung, potency, precautions and a hostof relevant factors every consumer should know. He explains howenzymes facilitate the digestion of food and how Lipase splitsfat. In addition, he demonstrates why older people might needHCL supplements due to a paucity of digestive acids. The authordevotes a full chapter to explaining a glossary of complexvitamin jargon. He breaks down vitamin-taking into variousconstituent groups; such as, pregnant women, children, runners,senior citizens, night workers and a host of relevant constituencies. Did you know that plain ketchup has 8% moresugar than ice cream? Lastly, he explains how to slow the agingprocess via the use of nucleic acids.The work is a good investment in developing a vitamin regimento complement key components of health maintenance.

For Vitamins, Look No Further

Vitamins are organic substances necessary for life. They act like spark plugs to regulate your metabolism and keep your body well tuned. The book is well-reference so you can find information by vitamin, by illness, by lifestyle.Some tidbits from the this book:1) American men rank 13th in world health, American women 6th.2) Vitamins cannot function without minerals. Although your body can make vitamins, it cannot make minerals. 3) Eighty percent of American women are deficient in Calcium. 4) The average life expectancy between smokers and non smokers is 18 years.5) You can lower your risk of stomach cancer by eating an half onion a day.6) When taking vitaminsit is best to space them out as far as possible for the maximum absorbtion, preferably after meals.7) One cigarettes destroy 25 - 100 mg of vitamin C. Smokers should take vitamin C.8) For calcium to be absorbed by the body, there must be vitamin D. 9) 1 gram of protein = 4 calories 1 gram of carbohydrate = 4 calories 1 gram of fat = 9 calories10) Great way to exercise that burns more calories than bicycling, tennis, and swimming - JUMPING ROPE. A 150 pound person will burn 720 calories jumping rope for 1 hour.

Truly a bible

To describe your own book as a bible, you must have a lot of information in it to back that up. Earl Mindell does a great job of doing just that! He gives his own researched description of what kinds of vitamins everyone should be taking at all times, and then describes special treatments for ailments from bad breath and cancer to sexually transmitted diseases and wrinkles. He also describes the power of proteins and describes how certain drugs deprive the body of vitamins. Caffeine is one of the biggest robbers out there. He offers herbal help for people hooked on drugs like marijuana and cocaine. Minerals and enzymes are explored, as well as why carbohydrates are needed in one's diet -- and why avoiding them won't help people lose weight. Mindell's book truly puts a lot of myths and misinformation to rest. His advice has helped me make it through a lot of worry, illness and has answered a lot of my health questions. Keep Mindell on hand.

Everything you wanted to know about vitamins and then some!

Dr. Mindell has written the best book on vitamins by far! This book is very interesting and fun to read. The format is clear and easy to understand. I highly recommened it to anyone who is seeking better health and understanding about the roles that vitamins play in our lives. Don't purchase vitamins until you read this book!